Source: Inside Tucson Business published on May 26, 2017 Written by Logan Burtch-Buss Photo Credit to Eric Suhm When Tucson resident Melissa Anderson underwent her first full knee replacement surgery in 2010, she said the painful rehabilitation process lasted three months. Roughly two mon...Read More

Source: KVOA 4 Your Health published on August 22, 2016 Written by John Overall TUCSON - The first hip replacement surgery was performed in 1960. Now, more than 300,000 total hip replacements are performed each year in the United States. Dr. Russell Cohen from the Tucson Orthopaedic Insti...Read More

I recently volunteered to go to Hanoi, Vietnam with the non-profit medical service organization, Operation Walk. This was the first trip I took with this organization; I was the only doctor from Tucson Orthopaedic Institute and I did not know anyone from the team beforehand. I simply contacted their...Read More

Giving Back DR. RUSSELL COHEN VOLUNTEERS IN VIETNAM TO PROVIDE MEDICAL CARE TO THE UNDERPRIVILEGED When a young woman in a small Vietnamese village suffered an injury as a child, the resulting healing caused her to walk with pain and a noticeable limp. Sadly, this made it very difficult for her to...Read More

Tucson man is one of 10 patients who will receive total joint replacement surgery as part of a nationwide program TUCSON, Ariz. – On Friday, Dec. 6, 10 patients from around Southern Arizona will receive the joint replacement surgery they so desperately need but are unable to afford. It's all made p...Read More

This November, Tucson Orthopaedic Institute surgeon, Luis Piedrahita, MD, returned to Ecuador with a team of volunteers to provide orthopaedic treatment to underprivileged patients. The humanitarian effort was set up by Dr. Piedrahita; this was the second year he organized the trip to Quito. He invi...Read More

Russell Cohen, MD, Tucson Orthopaedic Institute hip and knee surgeon, developed a program to provide free total joint replacement surgeries to local underserved patients with debilitating hip or knee arthritis. This is the first program of its kind in Tucson and the idea came to Dr. Cohen because...Read More